quaesitor

From quaesītum +‎ -tor, where the ī-perfect seems to be original. Compare with quaestor, from the present stem or from quaesō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʷae̯ˈsiː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kʷeˈs̬iː.t̪or]

quaesītor m (genitive quaesītōris); third declension

1. seeker, searcher
2. investigator

Third-declension noun.

quaesitor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of quaesō

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “quaerō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 503

• “quaesitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quaesitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "quaesitor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quaesitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “quaesitor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quaesitor in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016